Fecund welcomes submissions of writing and visual art across media. We recommend reading past issues of Fecund for insight into what we’re excited to publish. Although we don’t conform to one aesthetic, we tend to respond to work that challenges traditional forms or embraces liminality. That said, we purposefully keep criteria broad to allow contributors to submit their best work.
To submit, please send an email to:
fecund.mag@gmail.com
with the subject line “Submission — [NAME]”.
Submission guidelines:
- Fiction, essays, criticism, screenplay excerpts, fashion writing: up to 7,000 words of previously unpublished work
- Poetry: up to 10 poems of previously unpublished work
- Visual art, video: up to 10 images/videos
- Fashion photography, photo essays: up to 30 images
Please note that our editorial staff is unable to respond to all submissions or give feedback on pieces we are not publishing.
Saturday, January 29, 2022
Call for Submissions: Cream City Review
Thank you for your interest in submitting to Cream City Review! We devote ourselves to publishing memorable and energetic fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork which represent a broad range of creators with diverse, unique backgrounds. Both beginning and well-known writers are welcome.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and disruption to the usual academic calendar, we are behind on responding to general submissions. We’d like to thank you for your patience as we work through the queue. Please be assured that our volunteer readers and genre editors are doing their best to keep up with your great work. All submissions are considered for issues one year in advance, and our reporting time is typically 4-8 months.
Submissions are accepted only through Submittable. We ask you wait to submit again until you receive a response from us. Please note that submissions sent via mail or email will be discarded.
Deadline: April 1, 2022
Call for Submissions: Arcturus Magazine
Arcturus accepts unsolicited submissions year-round of fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid genres.
What We Publish
We have no restrictions on the writers or content we publish, but we’re passionate about publishing new perspectives — new ideas, new voices, new worlds, new challenges, new ways of seeing, etc. — a theme that can take an infinite number of shapes, including speculative fiction, experimental poetry, political essays, narrative reportage, and virtually everything else.
For original, previously unpublished work, we only ask for First North American Serial Rights (i.e., to be the first publication in North America to publish it), after which the rights return to you.
*We do not accept full manuscripts of any kind. We are not a publishing press. Please do not send queries for your manuscript.
How to Submit
To submit your work, email the editors at:
arcturusmag@gmail.com
Please address the appropriate editor (see the masthead at the bottom of the About page) and use the subject line: GENRE: Title of Work (ex. FICTION: My Story). Provide a brief cover letter and third person bio, and attach your work as either a Word Doc, or PDF.
If you’d like to submit for multiple genres, please send a separate email for each genre.
We try to respond to submissions within three (3) months, but please allow up to four (4) months before contacting us about the status of your piece. If you have previously submitted to Arcturus, we ask that you please wait six (6) months before resubmitting.
We accept simultaneous submissions. But if it is accepted elsewhere, please respond to the same email you submitted to inform us immediately you must withdraw your piece. NOTE: For Poetry, please withdraw specific poems from a packet in a new email. Not doing so will take longer for the editors to respond.
Poetry
Please submit up to 3–5 poems, no more than 10 pages total, as a single document. Please do not combine multiple poems onto a single page.
NOTE: For simultaneous submissions that get accepted elsewhere, please withdraw specific poems from a packet in a new email. Not doing so will take longer for the editors to respond.
Prose
Please submit only one piece no longer than 7,000 words, be it fiction, flash fiction, essay, reportage, or a hybrid genre.
Unfortunately, at this time we are unable to provide contributors with compensation. We encourage writers to first attempt to find a home for their original work that does offer compensation, as we strongly believe all writers and artists deserve it. We are currently seeking funding opportunities in order to compensate contributors in the future.
Note: Please avoid submitting if you know the editors personally.
Writing Competition: The Cutbank Chapbook Contest
Submissions Open: January 15 - May 31
Award: The winning author receives a $1000 honorarium plus 25 copies of the published book. Two runners-up will be chosen for publication as well.
Eligibility:
The CutBank Chapbook Contest honors a book of original poetry, fiction or creative nonfiction by a single author; translations are not eligible for this award. While previously published stand-alone pieces or excerpts may be included in a manuscript, the manuscript as a whole must be an unpublished work. Translations and previously self-published collections are ineligible.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable. Please note that reading fees are non-refundable, and you must withdraw the manuscript immediately via Submittable if it is accepted elsewhere.
Please do not include cover artwork with your submission; black and white illustrations are acceptable so long as you’ve obtained the rights.
Reading Fee: $20. Includes consideration and a copy of the summer print issue of CutBank upon its release. (International applicants must send a SASE to receive a copy of the issue, or email:
to coordinate shipping as we are no longer able to ship internationally.)
What We’re Looking For:
Startling, compelling, and beautiful original work. We’re interested in both prose and poetry – and particularly work that straddles the lines between genres, in a fresh, powerful manuscript. Perhaps yours will overtake us quietly, gracefully defy genres, or satisfyingly subvert our expectations. Maybe it will punch us in the mouth page in and page out.
Manuscripts should be cohesive and coherent; in other words, your manuscript should resonate and make sense as a book.
Guidelines for Electronic Submissions:
We only accept submissions electronically. The submission period runs January 1 through May 31. Entries must be received no later than midnight MST on May 31.
Manuscripts should be 25-40 typed pages in length of poetry (a cohesive poetry manuscript), fiction (either a short fiction collection or novella), or creative nonfiction (one long essay or a collection of short essays).
.DOC/.DOCX/PDF formats are acceptable.
For poetry and short prose, please include no more than one piece per page.
Include page numbers, table of contents, and, if applicable, an acknowledgments page addressing where sections have been previously published. The manuscript as a whole must be an unpublished work.
Submissions should include two cover pages as the first two pages of the document: one with the manuscript’s title, the other with the title, author’s name, address, and e-mail address. The author’s name should not appear anywhere else in the manuscript.
Additional Notes:
The winner and runners-up will be announced by CutBank and featured on the CutBank website, and we’ll do our best to distribute to regional independent bookstores.
The contest will be judged by the CutBank editorial staff.
Manuscript revisions are not permitted during the contest.
Multiple entries are fine as long as each is accompanied by a submission fee (in which case you will receive an additional copy of CutBank).
The author must not have a close personal or professional relationship with any current or previous CutBank staff members.
Results will be announced via e-mail and posted at www.cutbankonline.com in August.
Writing Competition: 2022 Airlie Prize
Submissions for the 2022 the Airlie Prize will be open January 1st through March 15th, 2022 to all poets writing in English, regardless of place of residence. The winner will be notified in the fall following the submission and will receive a $1000 cash award upon publication of the book in September of the next year. The initial print run is 500 copies.
At Airlie Press, our vision and mission are to publish books of poetry that are compelling, innovative, and representative of diverse voices. To that end, submissions to the Airlie Prize will no longer be read anonymously. As a press, we commit to participating in the ongoing conversation and practice regarding inclusion and equity. We encourage submissions from underrepresented voices and poets from marginalized communities.
In the interest of transparency, we’d like to share our selection process. All manuscripts will be read by two Airlie Press editors (either past or present) and previous Airlie Prize winners. Each reader will choose 2-3 manuscripts to advance to the second round. Our main criteria in reviewing manuscripts is the quality of the work. All current editors will then read the manuscripts that have advanced to the second round, and each will choose their top two selections. From that group of finalists, the prize winner is chosen by consensus among all current editors. If you have submitted to the Airlie Prize before, we encourage you to try again, as the judging team of Airlie Press editors varies from year to year.
Poets previously published or contracted to be published by Airlie Press are ineligible to enter this contest, as are members of the Airlie advisory board. In the case that an entry to the contest is made by a close connection (friend, relative, student, or former student) of one of the Airlie Prize readers, that reader will recuse themselves from the review of that manuscript in the first round. Manuscripts that advance to the final round will be read by all current editors, regardless of connection, and a winner will be chosen by consensus. For the purposes of this contest, we also define “close connection” as anyone with whom a reader has direct correspondence (either written or verbal) once a month or more. As poetry is a relatively small community, we believe a passing acquaintance with one of the readers does not necessitate a recusal.
Submissions are accepted via Submittable during the submission period.
Entry fee: $25 ($33 if you would like to receive a copy of the winning book; $38 for those residing outside the US wishing to receive the book).
Full guidelines and submission link here.
Call for Submissions: Dash Literary Journal
DASH Literary Journal is based out of the California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics. This is an entirely student-run journal. DASH is offered as a class entitled English 515: Proofreading, Editing, & Journal Production. This unique aspect involves an entire class with the production of and submissions that DASH receives, which allows each submission to receive more attention than typical literary journals.
Since 2008, DASH has published poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, micro literary criticism, hybrid texts, and artwork by authors and artists of all levels of experience, from first-time submitters through well-published creators.
While the works themselves cover a diverse range of topics, themes, and styles, successful DASH submissions are brief, concentrated expressions of creativity, with an emphasis on brevity.
Our regular reading period is October 17 -- March 1.
Please note that submissions not adhering to guidelines will be immediately discarded.
Please do not submit PDF files or paste submissions into our "contact" page
Only use the Submittable site.
Poems:
30 lines or fewer per poem. Submit up to 5.
Fiction, Nonfiction, Criticism:
2000 words or fewer, double-spaced, include word count. Submit 1.
Art:
Digital images, 300 dpi. as TIFF or JPEG attachment.
Do not send original artwork.
Hybrid:
Surprise us.
Call for Submissions to Anthology: Forest Avenue
Seeking SFF Stories by Disabled Authors
Deadline: March 17, 2022
Forest Avenue is seeking science fiction, fantasy, and speculative short stories by disabled authors who live in the United States. The anthology will be edited by disabled bookseller Annie Carl and published in paperback and ebook in the fall of 2023. Forest Avenue is distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West. Submissions are open through March 17, 2022. If you do not identify as disabled, this call is not for you.
If you’ve written a literary story with a touch of genre, send it our way. Horror isn’t our primary focus, but if you’ve written a story that borders on horror, we’d be happy to take a look. We are seeking stories of 5,000 words or less. Flash fiction is welcome. We will consider reprints, but hope to feature at least 80 percent new material. This is a paid opportunity. Rates are $100 per accepted story and $25 for reprints, plus two print copies.
Our focus is celebrating and spotlighting disabled authors within these genres. If you do not self-identify as disabled, please do not submit.
The disabled community is intersectional and we want this project to reflect that intersectionality. We are especially eager to see stories from disabled folx of color and queer folx. Neurodivergent writers who self-identify as disabled are welcome to submit.
Authors may choose to put their diagnoses in their bios and/or cover letters, but it’s not necessary. We will consider your story based on its merits.
If your disability prevents you from submitting via Submittable, please reach out to:
disabledscifianthology@gmail.com
and we'll assist with the process. This is a case-by-case situation, please do not email submissions without permission from the editor.
Submit your work here.
Call for Submissions: Story Magazine
We are actively reading submissions right now! We read all year round, and are currently catching up on late September, early October submissions, with a few stragglers aside. We have three categories for submitting your work; please choose wisely, but you know, if you accidentally pick the wrong category, fear not! These things happen. No big whoop. Our categories are: flash fiction (less than 2000 words), short story (2000-10,000 words), and long story (10,000-25,000 words).
We have an older page called Submit that we haven't deactivated because, I don't know, we just felt like leaving it up. If you don't have an account with us, you can click on that link and establish one in our Submission Manager.
Saturday, January 22, 2022
Call for Submissions: Raleigh Review
General Submissions
Open January-March for the Fall issue (closed April-May-June).
Open July-October for the Spring issue (closed November-December).
Response Time
Response time is typically 1-3 months, but occasionally may be as long as 3-6 months. Fiction currently has a longer turnaround time than poetry. Please feel free to query after 6 months by logging into your Submittable account and sending us a note from the system.
If your work is accepted for publication, please refrain from submitting again for a year.
For Poetry
Send four to five poems in ONE file (.doc, .docx, .pdf only). If you think your poems will make a perfect stranger's toes tingle, heart leap, or brain sizzle, then send it our way. We typically do not publish avant garde or language poetry and have a general aversion to unnecessarily exclusive work. We do like a poem that causes--for a wide audience--a visceral reaction to intellectually and emotionally rich material. If accepted, we will also request an audio recording, which is optional but highly encouraged.
For Flash Fiction
Works of fiction up to 1,000 words (.doc, .docx, .pdf only).
We prefer flash fiction with narrative elements (i.e., not only images).
While we are not looking specifically for speculative and genre fiction, we are open to literary stories with genre elements.
For Short Fiction
Works of fiction 1,200 to 7,500 words (.doc, .docx, .pdf only). Note: While we accept up to 7,500 words, stories at the 4,000-5,000 word mark are more likely to be accepted than those that are longer, simply due to space constraints. Please do not combine multiple submissions in one file. While we are not looking specifically for speculative and genre fiction, we are open to literary stories with genre elements. We delight in stories from unique voices and perspectives. Any fiction that is born from a relatively unknown place grabs our attention.
Book Review Consideration
We occasionally review collections of poetry or short stories (usually no more than 1-2 per issue), which have been recently published or are forthcoming. To request consideration of your book for review, send one copy to Raleigh Review, Box 6725, Raleigh NC 27628. We will notify you if we do choose to review your book. Review copies will not be returned.
Rights and Payment
Payment is $15 per work used, paid on publication, plus one copy of the issue for those with an address in the USA. For those with an international address, payment is two copies of the issue.
We request First North American Rights on works we publish, and all published content will be included in one or more EBSCO databases.
Thanks for your interest in Raleigh Review. We look forward to reading your work. For more information and to submit your work, go here.
Writing Competition: The 2022 Hudson Prize from Black Lawrence Press
The 2022 Hudson Prize is now open for early bird submissions. Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The Hudson Prize for an
unpublished collection of poems or short stories. The winner of this
contest will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and ten
copies of the book. Prizes awarded on publication.
This prize is open to both fiction and poetry collections.
New, emerging, and established writers are welcome to submit.
Early Bird Deadline: January 31
Early Bird Entry Fee: $22
Final Deadline: March 31, 2022 (with entry fee of $27)
For more information and to submit your manuscript, go here.
Writing Competition: Seventh Annual Narrative High School Writing Contest
Welcome to the Seventh Annual Narrative High School Writing Contest! We’re inviting poetry submissions from all US and international high school students, grades 9–12, to participate in our Seventh Annual Narrative High School Writing Contest! We are eager to hear from as many voices as possible. We’re eager to hear from YOU!
Contributing students in last year’s Sixth Annual Narrative High School Writing Contest covered the globe: indeed, we received submissions from nineteen countries, including South Africa, India, China, Serbia, Poland, Taiwan. Within the United States, we heard from young poets in 39 states and 174 cities—an amazing outpouring of poetry. This year, we urge new students to add their voices to the chorus.
Poetry has been called “the voice that is great within us,” yet there is no one way to write a poem. Particularly during these times of upheaval and reflection, we’re seeking emerging writers who will offer new perspectives that invite each of us to see the world anew.
2022 Narrative High School Writing Contest Rules and Guidelines
Who can enter?
Students from the US and internationally, grades 9–12, are eligible to submit to the contest. Winners and finalists, along with their teacher representatives, will be asked to provide identification.
No entry fee.
How do I send my work?
Writers will submit work through their English teacher, who will upload the work through the contest Submission Portal. Each teacher may submit the work of no more than ten students (one poem per student, please). Schools may submit a maximum of thirty submissions in total. The contest is free to enter. Teachers may submit their students’ work via our Submission Portal.
When’s the deadline?
The contest opens January 4, 2022, and the submission deadline is February 4, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. All submissions must be previously unpublished, either in print or online (including on social media and blogs). The contest results, including winners and finalists, will be announced in April.
What is this year’s prompt?
When you hear the phrase “Blind Spots” it conjures the notion of seeing. In our world today, there is much we are asked to see, as humans, that we can’t quite capture. Can you point to a blind spot in your life or in the lives around you? Those obscured places just beyond one’s vision, in the past, present, or future. Blind spots come in all shapes and sizes—and in your poem we look forward to reading how your unique experience and identity sculpt those edges.
Perhaps there’s a memory forgotten or a question left unanswered, a miscommunication with someone you love, a conversation lost in translation. Or, zoom out a bit: what blind spots might you share with your family, your friends, your city, your country, the world?
Can you capture in a poem a moment or story when you or the world around you was blind to something important? What happened that made things a bit more clear? You could turn toward the metaphorical or the literal, the small or the large, the individual or the systemic. Lean into that space of self-questioning and ask others to join you. We each have something to learn, and something to teach. Shine some light on the corners we’ve left in the dark, and tell us what we’re missing.
We invite you to write a poem, 10 to 50 lines long, in response to the prompt: BLIND SPOTS.
How will the winners be chosen, and when will they be announced?
For fairness, all judging of submitted poems will be done with names, grades, and school affiliations removed, and, further, entries will be sorted randomly by Narrative’s team—led by Narrative cofounder/editor and New York Times–bestselling author Carol Edgarian and Narrative poetry editor and executive editor of Copper Canyon Press Michael Wiegers. Guest judge Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Jericho Brown will select the ultimate winners and finalists. A first-, second-, and third-place winner, along with several finalists, will be announced in April. Narrative editors will mentor winners prior to publication in the magazine. Cash prizes totaling more than $1,000 will be awarded.
What awards will the winners receive?
The winning author will be presented with a $500 award. The second-place winner will receive $200, and the third-place winner will receive $100. Each finalist will receive $50. The schools of winners will also receive special recognition and prizes. The winning works will be published in Narrative, alongside many of today’s great writers. The winners will also have an opportunity to perform their work for our popular Narrative Outloud podcast.
For more information and to submit your work, go here.
Writing Competitions: Driftwood Press
Driftwood Press In-House Short Fiction & Single Poem Contest
Extended Deadline: January 31, 2022
Entry Fee for Fiction: $12.00
Entry Fee for Poetry: $10.00
Submit soon to our In-House Short Fiction & Single Poem Contests!
On the short fiction side, we're proud to announce that we've upped the award to $500 for the winning story and $150 for all runner-ups! Winners and runner-ups also receive publication, an interview, and an illustration that will appear alongside their story. All stories submitted are considered for publication by not one—but two editors, and response times are faster than usual.
On the poetry side, all works are also considered for publication, with the runner-ups awarded an interview, publication, and $50 per poem. The winner of the In-House Poetry Contest will receive $400, publication, a featured interview, and a commissioned illustration to appear alongside their work.
Call for Submissions: borrowed solace
borrowed solace unthemed call for submissions!
Deadline: March 1 2022
borrowed solace is looking for interesting and beautiful works for the spring unthemed 2022 literary journal. We accept nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and art.
Submissions close March 1, 2022
You can review our guidelines and read what the editors are looking for here.
Submit your work here.
We want to read what you write and see the art you take or make!
Call for Submissions on Theme of "Public Private": Superpresent
Public Private
Deadline: March 1, 2022
Superpresent is seeking submissions of poetry, essays, short stories, visual art, and film for its Spring Issue. The theme is Public Private: We have written a further description, but have chosen to keep it private.
Submit here.
Call for Submissions: Club Plum Literary Journal
Club Plum Seeks Works for April 2022 Issue
Deadline: March 25, 2022
Club Plum continues to expand our genres: Send your lyric essays, your flash fiction, your prose poetry, your hybrid works, and your art for Volume 3, Issue 2. Pummel us with your feathers. Dab us with your steel. See our website for guidelines.
Call for Submissions: Consequence
All submissions are welcome during the spring (January 15 - April 15) and fall (July 15 - October 15) reading periods, and will be considered for either our print publication (Consequence journal) or our website (Consequence online).
All submissions need to address in some manner the human consequences and realities of war or geopolitical violence.
FORMS
Fiction: Short story (up to 5,000 words), Flash (up to 3 pieces or 1000 words), and Excerpts (up to 5,000 words)
Nonfiction: Interviews, Reviews, Essays, and Narrative Nonfiction (all up to 5,000 words)
Poetry: Up to 5 poems of any form (please label the file with the number of poems, e.g. “Three_Poems”)
Visual Art: Artwork, Graphic Narratives, Video Essays, and Photo Essays
Translations: Accepted if the author’s permission has been granted
PAY RATES
Print Poetry: $40 per piece
Print Prose: (1-4 pps) $40 | (5-10 pps) $60 | (11+ pps) $80
Print Art: $200 for an eight-page spread (# of pieces in spread can vary)
Online Prose: $80 per piece
Online Poetry: $40 per piece
Online Art: $40 per piece
Reviews: (online only) $40 for long form & $20 for short form
Submit your work here.
Call for Submissions on Theme of "Disruption, Disguise, and Illuminations": The Caribbean Writer
The Caribbean Writer (TCW) has issued a call for submissions for Volume 36 under the 2021 theme: Disruption, Disguise and Illuminations. As history meets our day to day experiences, epiphanies unfold; and as we self-interrogate the disruption motifs in many of these illuminations, the roots of prevailing disruptions emerge, complicated by disguise. Submissions exploring this theme in its widest permutations are invited.
Contributors may submit works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essays or one act plays which explore the ideas resonating within the region and its diaspora. The Caribbean should be central to the work, or the work should reflect a Caribbean heritage, experience or perspective. Prospective authors should submit all creative works: drama, fiction and poetry manuscripts, through the online portal ONLY.
Submit Word files only (no PDFs) . Note that TCW no longer accepts hardcopy submissions.
Submissions are accepted from January 10 to December 31 each year and are considered for the journal that will be published the following year. (In other words, volume 36 will be published in 2022 and entries submitted between January 10 and December 31 of 2021 will be considered for volume 36. The deadline for submissions each year is December 31. Submit Word files here.
For more information, please visit our website.
Saturday, January 15, 2022
Call for Submissions to Anthology on Orpheus+Eurydice Unbound: Air and Nothingness Press
We are seeking stories for an anthology to be titled Orpheus + Eurydice Unbound (O+EU) which will collect reinterpretations of the Orpheus/Eurydice myth in a variety of genres. To be published in the summer of 2022 by the Air and Nothingness Press.
Theme:
In the interest of creating the book as a quilt or collage in structure, and making it coherent for readers, O+EU will be divided into four sections:
1. The Wedding (Orpheus returns from the Argonaut expedition and marries Eurydice)
2. The Snake (The Attack)/The Death (Eurydice is attacked/bitten and dies, Orpheus is overcome by grief)
3. The Quest (Orpheus descends to the Underworld and meets Hades and Persephone, Hades lays down a condition for Eurydice's return)
4. The Look Back (Orpheus and Eurydice ascend, Orpheus loses faith and looks back, Eurydice returns to Underworld, Orpheus is torn to pieces by the Bacchantes)
Authors are encouraged to organize their narratives around one of these four sections, though we recognize authors may need to adapt parts of adjacent sections in order to fully tell their stories as they wish to.
We will also accept stories retelling the full myth, but there will be a limited number of slots in the final book for this option.
If you have any questions, or want to discuss your approach beforehand, please email us. We recognize this is a bit of an experiment in how the book will be structured.
Authors may explore any genre with their stories and we encourage a wide variety of ideas and interpretations.
Submission Dates
Submissions open: November 15, 2021
Submissions close: February 15, 2022
Reading/Review begins: February 16, 2022
Reading/Review ends: April 16, 2022
All authors will be contacted by: April 30, 2022
Download the complete OC submission PDF here.
Ideal story lengths are between 1000-3000 words. We pay upon $0.08/word for the stories we publish. All of our books are limited editions of between 100 and 125 copies and we prefer to print physical books over creating ebooks.
Call for Submissions On Theme of "COVID-19": WordCity Literary Journal
It’s been two years now since Covid-19 circumvented the Globe. Two years of mitigations. Two years of sickness and loss. Two years of missing family, friends and the life events that bind us together. It’s also been two years of science denial. Of the continued rise of conspiracy theories and theorists. Two years of protests that endanger our already stretched-thin hospitals and medical staff.
So much has happened that hasn’t happened before in our lifetimes.
Meanwhile, wealthy countries have learned what it is to live with the kind of uncertainties the developing world knows all too well. We’ve also seen how the same wealthy countries can queue at the front of every line for life-saving vaccines.
For all of these and so many other reasons, WordCity Literary Journal is dedicating it’s March 2022 issue to matters of the pandemic.
Deadline: Feb. 15, 2022
We invite you to send works that touch on this in any way the theme moves you, and thank you in advance for your interest in our journal.
Please visit our Submissions page for guidelines.
Call for Submissions: Pangyrus Literary Magazine
Submissions Are Open! January 15, 2021 - April 15, 2021
Pangyrus publishes well-crafted, thought-provoking writing, comics and visual art in every genre online and in one to two print editions per year.
Some of the work we accept during this submission period will appear in our 10th print issue! As we discussed possible themes to mark this huge milestone, we kept gravitating to the environment, and the need (and opportunity) to restructure more sustainable systems for both democracy and the planet.
As a special section of Pangyrus 10, and of the website, then, we’ll be keeping an extra sharp eye out for your pieces that reimagine our relationship to place and history and ecosystem, that challenge our ideas, that offer both warnings–and solutions.
These could be essays, stories, poems, artwork, and comics that touch upon themes of environmental justice, climate change, environmental impact on communities, pollution, food, garbage, everyday life, energy — its value and cost, biodiversity, extinction, the future and the fate of our planet. We leave it up to your interpretation.
Along with general submissions — environmentally themed or not — we are interested in a few specific categories: Zest!; In Sickness and In Health; Field Notes; and Schooled – themed pieces in every genre. For full descriptions of these categories please visit this section of our Submittable page. We encourage you to read us at pangyrus.com to get a sense of what we’re looking for.
If you think our readers will find it entertaining and compelling, send it our way. We read every submission that we get with fresh eyes and open minds.
Please go to our Submittable page for details.
Writing Competition on Theme of "HIV/AIDS": A&U Magazine's 9th Annual Christopher Hewitt Award
A&U Magazine: Art & Understanding, is currently accepting entries for the ninth annual Christopher Hewitt Award. Named in honor of A&U’s first literary editor, the award showcases outstanding responses to the AIDS pandemic and the realities of individuals living with or affected by HIV/AIDS in the genres of fiction, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction.
Prize: $75
Entry fee: None
Submission deadline: June 15, 2022
Judges: Winners will be selected by the following judges, by category.
Poetry: Philip F. Clark
Fiction: Raymond Luczak
Creative Nonfiction: Jay Vithalani
Drama: Bruce Ward Publication: Winners and named runners-up will be published in upcoming issues of A&U.
How to Submit: Email Word (.doc or .docx files) of your work to Managing Editor Chael Needle by emailing:
chaelneedle [at] mac [dot] com (Change [at] to @ and [dot] to . )
Please indicate in the subject line that your submission is for the Christopher Hewitt Award; include your name and genre in the subject line as well. Your name or any other personal identifying information should not appear on your manuscript. Multiple submissions are accepted, but please submit each separately.
Guidelines: All submissions must be HIV/AIDS-related and previously unpublished. All styles are welcomed. Writers may submit more than one work.
Fiction and creative nonfiction should be 1,200 words or fewer, double-spaced. Reasonable exceptions will be considered.
Drama may be an excerpt from a longer work or a ten-minute play (1,400-1,600 words, no more than ten pages, Dramatists Guild format). For drama excerpts, include, on a separate page, a synopsis and a full cast of characters.
We reserve the right to excerpt longer pieces for print, in consultation with the author; works in their entirety will be printed on the web.
Rights: We secure first North American serial rights and electronic archival rights (posting on the Web and in digital issues).
If any genre lacks a clear winner, fewer than four awards may be given. All entries will be considered for publication.
A&U: Art & Understanding, a national print and online magazine now in its 30th year, regularly features interviews with writers, artists, and advocates such as Sarah Schulman, Danez Smith, Rafael Campo, Rabih Alameddine, Cleve Jones, Tony Kushner, Spencer Reece, E. Lynn Harris, Gore Vidal, Maria Mejia, Athol Fugard, Sapphire, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Peter Staley, John Waters, Emanuel Xavier, Andrew Holleran, Mark S. King, Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Chip Livingston, Janet Jackson, Anjelica Houston, Paul Lisicky, Robert Carr, Mondo Guerra, Victoria Noe, Michael Cunningham, Martin Duberman, Nancy Duncan, Mary Fisher, Aileen Getty, Mark Ruffalo, Alexandra Billings, Randy Boyd, Edmund White, Mary Bowman, and George Takei.
Call for Submissions: Months to Years
Our next call for submissions will be for the Summer 2022 issue. The call will open on January 15 and close on March 1.
We welcome previously unpublished nonfiction (including essay, memoir, journalism, and creative nonfiction) of up to 2,500 words that explore mortality, death, and dying-related topics. (Please note, WE DO NOT PUBLISH FICTION.) We also accept poetry as well as art and photography submissions. Please note that “unpublished” includes not published on personal websites, blogs, or any form of social media.
Months To Years now accepts submissions only via Submittable.
We publish new work to our website (New Work page) approximately once a week. Those works are then eventually compiled into the next digital issue of the magazine.
We seek personal stories with universal appeal. Tell us your story but make it fresh, compelling, unusual. We receive numerous submissions. The stories that stand out are the ones that tell us a story we think we know but then surprise us or delight us. Or make us laugh. Despite the seriousness of topic. Please read past issues before submitting your work to us.
More information on our website.
Writing Competition: Mayday March Madness Flash Fiction Contest
MAYDAY March Madness Flash Fiction Contest
Deadline: March 1, 2022
The MAYDAY March Madness Flash Fiction Contest is accepting submissions!
Entry is free.
First place winner will receive $100 and second place $50. The Final Four contenders will be published and receive prize boxes including books and other goodies from our co-sponsors, including New American Press, Milkweed Editions, Copper Canyon, the Colorado Review, Moon City Press, and others.
To participate, follow us on social media and send one flash fiction story (~100-500 words) by March 1.
The top 16 contenders will be selected by MAYDAY fiction editors and winners will be determined by vote on social media beginning March 14.
Writing Competition: Backbone Press Chapbook Competition
Backbone Press Chapbook Competition
Deadline: March 6, 2022
Entry Fee: $20.00
Award: $250, 20 copies of the chapbook, and a small honorarium for a reading or launch event
Backbone Press is accepting chapbook submissions for our 4th annual competition. Deadline is March 6, 2022. Poet Tyree Daye will judge. Previous winners and runner ups include: celeste doaks, Lindsay Young, Chloe Martinez, and Danielle P. Williams.
See website for full details.
Call for Submissions on Theme of "Navigations": A Place for Peace
Call for Submissions: Navigations - A Place for Peace
Deadline: March 10, 2022
Each issue of About Place Journal, the arts publication of the Black Earth Institute, focuses on a specific theme. From January 1st to March 10th we'll be accepting submissions for our Spring 2022 issue Navigations: A Place for Peace. Our mission: to have art address the causes of spirit, earth, and society; to protect the earth; and to build a more just and interconnected world. We publish prose, poetry, visual art, photography, video, and music which fit the current theme.
More about this issue's theme and our submission guidelines here.
Saturday, January 8, 2022
Writing Residency: Mother's Milk Interantional Writer and Artist Residency
Mother's Milk International Writer and Artist Residency
Eligibility
Residents will be exceptional creative practitioners – including emerging, mid-career and established artists - who desire time and space to work on their projects. Residencies will be awarded based on excellence and merit of project proposal, and the applicant’s interest in and ability to work independently. Residents cannot be currently enrolled in an undergraduate degree program, must be at least 21 years old, and must reside on-site for the duration of the program. International applicants will need to show proof of English language skills and will be responsible for acquiring appropriate visas if accepted.
Nondiscrimination
Mother's Milk is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity for all persons regardless of race, sex, color, religion,creed, national origin or ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or dis/ability.
Process
Applications are submitted through our application portal.
Each application requires:
- Applications
- A project proposal statement, not to exceed 500 words.
- A current CV.
- Samples of recent work - see CaFE for details.
- References: Contact information for two professional references that are familiar with your work and your potential to be a positive member of our small community of residents.
- Preferred residency dates (although not guaranteed)
- $25 application fee
Mother’s Milk can provide formal letters of invitation upon request.
The next application deadline is February 15, 2022 for August-October 2022 residencies. Jury notification will be mid-March 2022. We're happy to answer questions related to your projects and proposals.
Call for Submissions: Peatsmoke Journal
Great news! We are open for free submissions from January 1st - February 28th, 2022! We’re excited to read your work!
We accept previously unpublished poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know right away if your work is accepted elsewhere. You can include a cover letter full of amusing tidbits about you or of fascinating trivia you learned from a podcast recently, but we are not interested in reading a list of the journals your work has appeared in. What is important to us is that you are sending us writing that feels urgent and necessary, work that is ready to go out for a stroll in the world. As a journal, we are committed to publishing diverse voices of all kinds.
We know how nerve-wracking it can be to check your inbox every morning, hoping to hear back from a journal, so we do our best to make our turnaround time as quick as possible. We will try to respond to every submission within two months, if not sooner. Please do not send more than one submission in any genre until you have heard back from us.
Unfortunately, we have had to begin charging for submissions. We are a two-person volunteer staff with a limited budget, and this charge will cover only our costs for running Submittable. However, we want to ensure that submitting to Peatsmoke remains accessible to all. If you are unable to pay the $3 submission fee, please send us an email at:
letting us know, and we will waive your submission fee. Also, we offer free submissions for marginalized writers, as it is so important to us to support the words of those who have been traditionally underrepresented in the writing community.
Submit your work here.
Call for Submissions: NonBinary Review
Zoetic Press publishes NonBinary Review, our award-winning themed quarterly lit journal. Each issue revolves around a specific theme, but we're asking contributors to go beyond the old familiar media tropes.
We're looking for work we can read with our whole body - work that gives us goosebumps, makes us see the world differently, has the tang of authenticity, makes us sit up and listen, and smells like....something. This analogy got out of hand. What we're saying is that we're not looking for re-hashes of images or stories we've read before. We want contributors to explore every facet of our themes, really getting in between the cracks, in the corners, all the forgotten places that no one ever thinks to explore. We want to read work that makes us think "I never would have thought of this, and yet, it's so fitting!"
What we're NOT looking for is work that centers violence, rape, misogyny, racism, ableism, or degrading stereotypes of any kind. We know you're not that kind of writer, but we thought it should be said.
NonBinary Review accepts reprints, but we do ask for previous publication details so they can be credited.
We can only accept ONE submission per author/artist. You are free to submit as many as you like (following guidelines), but once we have accepted a piece, the rest will be declined. It's not that we don't love you. It's that we're poor, and this can get expensive.
We're currently seeking submissions for:
Person First in an Identity First World (open 12/1/2021 through 4/30/2022)
Person First in an Identity First World Visual Art (open 12/1/2021 through 4/30/2022)
Shared Worlds (open 9/1/2021 through 1/31/2022)
Shared Worlds Visual Art (open 9/1/2021 through 1/31/2022)
PAYMENT
NonBinary Review pays 1 cent per word for prose, and a flat fee of $10 for poetry (singular poems or a suite), payable upon receipt of the signed publication contract. NonBinary Review accepts previously published work as long as the original publication is clearly credited. All contributors will receive a complimentary .pdf copy of the issue in which their work appears.
Writing Competition: 2022 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction
2022 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction
Deadline: March 14, 2022
$2,500 honorarium and publication in the Fall/Winter issue of Colorado Review
Submit an unpublished story between 2,500 and 12,500 words by March 14, 2022 (we will observe a 5-day grace period).
$15 reading fee (add $2 to submit online)
Final judge is Ramona Ausubel; friends and students (current or former) of the judge are not eligible to compete, nor are Colorado State University employees, students, or alumni.
Complete guidelines at:
nelliganprize.colostate.edu or:
Nelligan Prize, Colorado Review
9105 Campus Delivery, Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-9105.
Call for Submissions on Theme of "Martial Arts": Clinch
Submit to Clinch—A Martial Arts Literary Magazine
Deadline: April 1, 2022
Martial Arts is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Yet, in the literary community, there isn’t anywhere to give it a voice—until now. At Clinch, our goal is to bring the martial arts and creative writing communities together. Or, at least, get the two acquainted. So send us your work that displays the good, bad, and eccentric qualities of martial arts.
If it’s good writing, and encompasses martial arts/combat sports—including boxing—in any way, shape, or form, we want it. Show us your submission game.
Our website.
Call for Submissions: Works Progress
Works Progress Calling for Fiction Submissions
Deadline: Year-round
We are a brand new Substack publishing short fiction about anything bigger than yourself: stories about astronauts, ICU nurses, politics, protests, alternate histories, big-world calamities, juicy personal dramas and the people who experience them. Fiction with dynamic characters who do interesting things. We don’t think stories should be slogs. We do not publish quiet stories about divorce.
We pay our writers.
Submit via email:
worksprogress.submissions@gmail.com
and visit our archives here.
Writing Competition: The Eliud Martinez Prize
The Eliud Martinez Prize
Deadline: January 31, 2022
Inlandia Books announces the Eliud MartÃnez Prize for a first book in fiction or creative nonfiction by a Hispanic, Latino/a/x, or Chicana/o/x writer.
Winner receives $1,000 + book publication.
Submit via Submittable November 1 through January 31.
$15 reading fee
The Eliud Martinez Prize was established to honor the memory of Eliud MartÃnez (1935-2020), artist, novelist, and professor emeritus of creative writing at University of California, Riverside. "Our literary expression occupies a place within our American national literature, and among the literatures of the world.”—Eliud Martinez
Call for Submissions: Feels Blind Literary
Feels Blind Literary is Open for Submissions for Issue #7
Deadline: March 6, 2022
Feels Blind Literary, a publication featuring work from artists and writers who are nonbinary or identify as women, is currently accepting art, photography, fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and plays. Issue #7 will launch in time for AWP where we will have a table and host an off-site reading.
All profits from our small fee go to organizations like the Richmond Community Bail fund, though submissions are free every Monday, as it’s important to us that cost is not a barrier to access for our contributors. We nominate for the Best of the Net and Pushcart. Dazzle us with your best!
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